The poisoning wasn't deliberate. The company that produces the dog food has changed suppliers for a particular ingredient. The new supplier is in China. The ingredient was contaminated by pesticides used on their wheat crops.
Just shows that you cannot control everything!

This is dreadful. Poisoning is supposedly an agonising way to die. If this is deliberate then heads should roll - literally.

Man, that is real scary stuff! Thanks for the links. I had to check and see if my babies were safe. Thank goodness I don't use any of the dog or cat foods on the list. Whew!

Thank you for linking the petition, JP, as well as sending me the Amnesty link. Things there are getting worse and worse... I really think Mugabe has lost it. And the attitude of the rest of Africa's politicians stinks.

Are we living in the end times? The conflicts seems to be escalating... it's a thought.

Because the written word stays on the page/computer for so long its effect can be longer lasting than the spoken word. And much more hurtful. I feel for your friend - it hurts me one this site when someone says Moderators are useless. It may be a generalisation, but it is upsetting!

It always amazes me that people can make claims like this. Where the seals this much of a problem before man became really organsied? Bit liek the elephants in Africa, killed because they are taking too much land. The land they used to roam is being eaten up by man... and I guess our demands for fish mean we don't want the competition we face from seals.

Lowering standards? Or perhaps contamination from bad environmnetal policies. It certainly is disturbing.

Man, I've been doing that all day, "a very" oops!

That is avery good question.

A very thought intriguing entry. I agree with you about the written word. There is something so very powerful about being able to express yourself by writing things down...gives the reader the real meaning and depht of what you're saying by reading not just your thoughts, but your feelings. There's so much that can be said here.